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Suspends 7 excise officers, 6 cops: Punjab CM

 

Boss Minister Capt Amarinder Singh on Saturday requested the suspension and request against seven Excise and Taxation Officers and Inspectors alongside two DSPs and four SHOs of the Punjab Police regarding the fake alcohol misfortune, which has so far asserted 86 lives in Tarn Taran, Amritsar (Rural) and Gurdaspur.

Asking SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal not to politicize the misfortune, CM Capt Amarinder Singh said such cases had happened before as well, including under the SAD-BJP system

Comparable occurrences had happened in 2012 and 2016 in Gurdaspur and Batala in which a few lives were lost, he said

He has additionally declared Rs 2 lakh ex gratia remuneration for every one of the groups of the perished. Exacting move will be made against any local official or others discovered complicit for the situation, said the CM, portraying the police and Excise Department inability to check the assembling and offer of fake alcohol as dishonorable.

“No one will be permitted to pull off taking care of toxic substance to our kin,” he included.

Vowing tough activity against each one of those associated with the case, the CM cautioned those enjoying false alcohol business to stop quickly or face results. He said he had guided the police to follow the guilty parties and charge each one of those associated with the case wherein he had yesterday requested an authoritative request by a Divisional Commissioner. “Such unlawful acts are not adequate,” he said.

During the thirteenth release of the Facebook Live #AskCaptain collaboration, the Chief Minister declared the suspension of Excise and Taxation Officers (ETOs) Lovejinder Brar from Gurdaspur, BS Chahal from Amritsar and Madhur Bhatia from Tarn Taran. The Excise and Taxation Inspectors who have been suspended with quick impact are Ravi Kumar (Gurdaspur), Gurdeep Singh (Amritsar), Pukhraj (Fatehbad) and Hitesh Prabhakar (Tarn Taran City).

The police authorities suspended on charges of carelessness of obligation incorporate DSP, Jandiala, (Amritsar provincial) and DSP, Tarn Taran sub-division and the SHOs of PS Tarsikka (Amritsar country), Batala City (Batala police region), PS Sadar (Tarn Taran) and PS City (Tarn Taran).

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